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mircea_popescu: anyway. me leling at the pseudoscience of others does not promote me to the rank of pseudoscience author.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ya srsly, how about you make a much bigger board ? this topic deserves some attention
mircea_popescu: because the tropics suck ass, because they had run a welfare system for centuries.
mircea_popescu: mass migrations out of the tropics have been a thing since the 50s
mircea_popescu: jurov well mass migrations out of oceania seems to be against your definition of oceania
mircea_popescu: antephialtic there's reasons we don't trust coinbase after all.
mircea_popescu: jurov everyone is going to have problems sooner or later anyway. that's the definition of problems.
mircea_popescu: they also released the known but apparently not widely known fact that coinbase is forwarding all tx history to teh us alphabet soup on a daily basis.
mircea_popescu: as someone said, when therer's a cockroach in plain sight, that's never the only cockroach around.
mircea_popescu: jurov no but seriously, what, some coral reefs ? some volcanic islands a mile wide ? this is something someone should care about ?
mircea_popescu: but also because who knows, could be a comedy goldmine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform forwarded you some mile long email, mostly because i have no consideration for your time apparently.
mircea_popescu: jurov just saying, i called it stupid and moved on when i was about 9
mircea_popescu: jurov half of "oceania" is what exactly, some islands ?
mircea_popescu: except you know, they are "professional" and thus fail to communicate.
mircea_popescu: i suspect one of the biggest mistakes ever would be to try and rescue the stupidity of global warming by semantics.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, tis late. we'll continue... tomorrow. which is another day.
mircea_popescu: MisterE in the same sense there's no built in check to the number of alt coins that can be created
mircea_popescu: it didn't last so long, and of course for "very good reasons" (tm)
mircea_popescu: MisterE the best part is this : at the time, if i told a proponent that "govt will just monopolize it" he'd just have loled at me. "what are you talking about, ANYONE CAN ISSUE PAPER"
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with either of the two, up until they're being brandished by a thief.
mircea_popescu: but in the same sense the tech of a pistol is better than the tech of a sword.
mircea_popescu: that aside, obviously the technology is better, crypto chain > paper issuance.
mircea_popescu: im sure when law was writing it wasn't directly obvious that the thing'll end up as a welfare scam either.
mircea_popescu: the problem with paper money run by a government is exactly the same as the problem with a bitcoin run by government.
mircea_popescu: he's in his 20s. thermos too. most of them are too young for this shit rly.
mircea_popescu: "According to a March 28th filing in Manhattan federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Serrin Turner has asked for the 24-year-old Shrem’s case to be postponed until April 28th."
mircea_popescu: "Charlie Shrem, known for his alleged involvement in the Silk Road scandal, is in talks with US prosecutors for a plea bargain."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people have peculiar interactions with the voices in their heads. it leads to fascinating conclusions.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic well your friend won't irc and i'm not about to argue with anyone on twitter, so i guess that's that.
mircea_popescu: what i dislike is a bunch of fucktards going around with money that isn't theirs, muddying things up.
mircea_popescu: nothing really, all the overfed know of hunger is their terror.
mircea_popescu: not that people can't rehash the ancient arguments re the importance of the church and present them de novo in favour of the state.